Burned & Bound Quotes

“I love you, Jackson. I loved you growing up, I loved you long after I left, and I still love you. I’ll always love you.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“When you spend your whole damn life being hit, you start to expect it. And the anger… they just go hand in hand,” I whispered. “And it just stays there and festers and fucking builds until you can’t hold it in no more. One day you just… snap.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“That boy has to bear the weight of his demons. You can’t take that from him no matter how hard you love him.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“That’s my grumpy cowboy.” His cowboy. I liked the fucking sound of that. A lot. More than I wanted to admit out loud.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“Don’t…” he began quietly, “don’t… don’t give me the power to break your heart. I’m not fucking worth that.” This man. This fucking man. He just didn’t get it, did he? “It’s too late for that,” I whispered. Taking his face in my hands, I kissed him once. Twice. Three times. Each kiss lingered longer than the last. “I loved you back then just like I love you now.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“I trailed after them, hands in my pockets, as Jackson took the brunt of her attention so I didn’t have to. He’d never understand just how much I appreciated that. I couldn’t put that shit into words.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“I told you I’m not fucking worth it.” “I’ll keep believing you are for the both of us.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“Some people are born great, some people are born worthless, and everyone else is somewhere in between,” he told me “I know where I stand on that scale.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“I’m not worth it,” I whispered breathlessly against his mouth. “You just let me keep believing that for the both of us,” Jackson said, quiet and full of conviction.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“I’d rather go through hell with you, West, than watch it destroy you.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“This was what I did. I fixed shit. I couldn’t fix how his mind worked against him, but I could fix the circumstances around him to the best of my ability.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“PTSD is a bitch of a thing. It shreds apart all the things you knew about yourself and then keeps on taking from things you never thought it could touch.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“He wasn’t the West that left me. He was the West I’d lost. That did something to me. Something painful.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“Too broken to fight back and too fucking tired to try.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“You need to learn to give people some grace—now more than ever,” he said. “There are just some times in life you need to learn to shut your goddamn mouth instead of lashin’ out with all that anger of yours. This right here… this is one of them moments.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“Ah, there it was. Good ol’ Wood Springs, where the people are welcoming as long as you look like them, think like them, and fuck like them.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“On camera, I was a hell of a personality. Everyone loved the happy-go-lucky gay bull rider persona. What wasn’t to love about that? But anyone who knew me outside of that? Well, they all knew it was a fucking smoke show. I was a mean son of a bitch when I wanted to be, and no one fucking messed with me. Gay didn’t guarantee I was happy. It just meant I liked dick.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“There was no denying that Dakota West McNamara had broken my heart.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“Vinnie and I always got into stupid shit when we drank too much. Which was every time we went drinking.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound

“Jackson looked the part of a rancher from his sunkissed chestnut hair to his tanned skin that made his blue eyes stand out in an unnerving way. I gave him shit for it but that didn’t stop me from admiring.”
― A. Winchester, Burned & Bound